ZeMarmot is a project of 2D animation movie about wandering and freedom, planned to be released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International/Art Libre licenses and fully made with creative Free Software (GIMP, Krita, Blender, Ardour…).

The length of the film depends on how much money is raised, up to 45 minutes if 200k euro can be raised.

In the interview above and elsewhere issue of flexible funding comes up – if they raise less than €9,000 they keep the money and promise no product. It was probably a mistake to not make the first 9k fixed (all or nothing) so as to avoid this question (it apparently can’t be changed now), but I enjoy their direct answers. (This reminds me yet again that I wish a version of Ian Clarke’s FairShare idea had made it into some crowdfunding platform – early patrons get a cut of later contributions, compensating them for risk and encouraging them to help market.)

At the end they say there’s no magic around funding free films, they have to slowly build a supporter base like Blender did. But they are also ambitious, like Blender. I hope someone gives them a large amount of funding at some point. They have refused offers to do a non-free film.

2016-06-30 blog post about funding they say have $16 a month from 6 contributors at Patreon and 42€ from 12 at Tipeee. As of right now, almost 2 months later, they’re at $42/14 and 140€/27 respectively.

I think they’re doing great work artistically and also to improving free production software (their post last month about GIMP) so I will go add my ongoing support.